Liu Jing (劉景) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Jing as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Jing	劉景	Liú Jǐng
Given	Jing	景	Jǐng
Courtesy name	Keda	可大	Kědà
Surname	Liu	劉	Liú
Personal name	Liu Jing	劉景	Liú Jǐng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:010:s0157, liaoshi:086:s0021

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0040

Age

Age: 67 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0040

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
Source Date: Text: 應歷初 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0026
Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0039
Source Date: Text: 應歷九年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0027

Family

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Ancestor of Liu Sangu (劉三嘏)
Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Liu Yide (劉一德)
Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Liu Siduan (劉四端)
Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Liu Liufu (劉六符)
Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Liu Erxuan (劉二玄)
Generation Distance: 2
Ancestor of Liu Wuchang (劉五常)
Generation Distance: 2
Descendant of Liu Bing (劉怦)
Kinship Term: fourth-generation ancestor / 四世祖 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
Child of Liu Shoujing (劉守敬)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Liu Shenxing (劉慎行)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Literary Officer of Youdu Prefecture / 幽都府文學
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0025
Label: administrative secretary / 政事舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
Label: Right Reminder / 右拾遺 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷初 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0026
Label: Commissioner of the Household Bureau / 戶部使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0038
Label: Deputy Regent of the Southern Capital / 南京副留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0036
Label: drafter of edicts / 知制誥 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0026
Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0026
Label: Military Commissioner of Wuding and Kaiyuan / 武定、開遠二軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0038
Label: Minister and Academician of the Xuanzheng Hall / 尚書、宣政殿學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0034
Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0034
Label: Concurrent Palace Attendant / 兼侍中 · Action: granted
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0039
Label: left reminder and drafter of edicts / 左拾遺知制誥 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
Label: Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0041
Status: retired · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0039
Status: mourning · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0029
Status: office-restored · Action: recalled-from-mourning
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157, liaoshi:086:s0026
Place: Hejian / 河間
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0021

Learning and skills

Skill: writing / 文 · Level: able
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0024

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0032
Kind: remonstrance · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0027

Events and relationships

Kind: administration · Role: co-administrator · Other Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓) · Action: jointly administered capital
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0037
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Zhao Yanshou (趙延壽)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0025

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: Liu Jing can serve as chief minister · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yelü Xian (耶律賢)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0035
Kind: character · Statement: steady and substantial; loved learning
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0024

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 10Volume 10 Annals 10: Shengzong 1 · 1 passage

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丁巳，以翰林學士邢抱樸為尚書、禮部侍郎、知制誥，左拾遺知制誥劉景、吏部郎中知制誥牛藏用並政事舍人。 On dingsi day Hanlin academician Xing Baopu was appointed Minister of Rites, vice minister, and drafter of edicts; left reminder and drafter of edicts Liu Jing and Ministry of Personnel bureau director and drafter of edicts Niu Cangyong were both made administrative secretaries.

History of Liao, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 16: Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Ye Luniaolu, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, Xiao Heshang, Yelu Helizhi, Yelu Pode · 8 passages

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耶律合住劉景劉六符耶律甗履牛溫舒杜防蕭和尚 Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Yelu Lü, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, and Xiao Heshang

劉景，字可大，河間人。 Liu Jing, whose style name was Keda, came from Hejian.

景資端厚，好學能文。 Jing was sober and upright by nature, fond of study, and skilled with the pen.

九年，周人侵燕，留守蕭思溫上急變，帝欲俟秋出師，景諫曰：「河北三關已陷於敵，今復侵燕，安可坐視！」 In the ninth year the Zhou attacked Yan. Regent Xiao Siwen reported the crisis, but the emperor wanted to wait until autumn before marching. Jing urged him, saying, "The three passes of Hebei have already fallen to the enemy, and now they invade Yan again—how can we simply look on!"

景奏曰：「唐制，赦書日行五百里，今稽期弗發，非也。」 Jing submitted a memorial, saying, "Under Tang practice an amnesty edict was to travel five hundred li a day; to hold it back now is wrong."

景宗即位，以景忠實，擢禮部侍郎，遷尚書、宣政殿學士。 When Emperor Jingzong came to the throne, Jing's integrity won him promotion to Vice Minister of Rites and then to Minister and academician of the Xuanzheng Hall.

上方欲倚用，乃書其笏曰：「劉景可為宰相。」 The emperor was preparing to rely on him heavily and wrote on his court tablet, "Liu Jing is fit to be chief minister."

時留守韓匡嗣因扈從北上，景與其子德讓共理京事。 The regent Han Kuangsi had accompanied the court north, and Jing governed the capital together with Han's son Derang.